All Mixed Up is the – We ran out of money and we put this up instead show. I say yes please, can we have more of this!!! In fact I don’t know why galleries have needed all those massive budgets over the last few years. The Hayward could do 10 shows with the same…
Happy Birthday Frida! Just Don’t forget your sisters!!
If you haven’t read the original insightful article in Hyperallergic An Indigenous Perspective on Frida Kahlo You might ask what’s wrong with being a mostly European or Mestizo woman of the upper class dressing up like Frida Kalho, is are only dirt poor Mestizo women is the only true or authentic I’d say in response…
Matejko’s Copernicus: A cosmic sublime
The Deep Space Time artist Julie Hill looks at the intertwining of the divine and cosmic in this portrait of Copernicus where the parallel is made to a ships captain navigating his ship of reason into a forever expanded universe. His reordering of our solar system could be perhaps considered our first modern growing up….
Sin – New & Improved at the National Gallery
Sin what is good for? Some people don’t think it exists anymore. It certainly goes without much thought these days as to what notions it concerns itself with, the historical context from which it emerged and how it has shaped civilisation despite that most of the norms we have where inherited from this . A…
Rebecca Wallersteiner explores why the Germans can’t get over the Berlin Wall
Rebecca Wallersteiner travels to Brussels to select her highlight of the BRAFA Art Fair 2020 The Berlin Wall installation at BRAFA 2020 in Brussels – photo credit BRAFA 2020 Fabrice Debatty There are some objects that appeal to the viewer not for their beauty, or for their or rareness, or history, but for what they represent….
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Brafa 2019: Gilbert & George – Bearded Troglodytes
Brafa 2019: Gilbert & George – Bearded Troglodytes Rebecca Wallersteiner travels to Brussels to meet the famous duo who turned themselves into one of the most famous “living” artworks “When we were young you couldn’t get a job in a bar if you had a beard. Now you can’t get a job in…
A subtle game of Spot the difference: Mantegna and Bellini at the National Gallery
Hurry! Show Ends 27th January A subtle game of contrasts ensues comparing the delicacy of Mantegna’s Egg Tempera to the swarthy fleshy seduction of Bellini’s Oil Painting Technique: ‘The Presentation of Christ in the Temple’ by Giovanni Bellini, about 1470–1475 ( Fondazione Querini Stampalia Onlus, Venezia ) These two brothers in-law struck up a productive dialogue…